La Playa Seafood

Iv eaten the salmon with veggies and rice, and the foil wrapped fish, shrimp, and veggies. The food is always fresh, however there are never any churros available.. I’d love to try these! Atmosphere could use an update. Update: I had the salmon plate with rice and beans. The rice was a little bland. The margaritas are really good though

I decided to try this place completely at random. One factor being they had fried seafood. I'm not fond of broiled, baked, or seafood soups, and steer clear of the whole fish plates. I ordered the (2) fish (3) shrimp and (4) oyster plate, with coleslaw and rice for the sides. Most the plates here are $10-12. My plate came out decently fast, in less than 10 minutes. The recent reviews had me a bit worried. I tried a piece of shrimp first, the menu stated breading was thin, and it was. Everything had a thin skin of breading, not crunchy, not thick. It was thin enough just adding lemon to the fish caused the skin to stick to the plate and peel off easily. I tried a piece of the fish, and it was really good. The fish was moist, seasoned well, and the tartar sauce here was great. At this point I was pretty happy with the choice. Then a fork full of coleslaw.. which was absolutely horrible. I did not swallow it.. I tried another fork full from another spot.. same.. I moved on to the rice and the oysters. The rice had minimal peppers in it, but was closer to spanish rice than rice pilaf, the oysters were decent in size, not tiny, but not overly large and had decent flavor. They batter on them was a little thicker than the fish and shrimp. One lady came by and asked how everything was, when I said "the coleslaw is bad, its very bitter" the replied "oh, you like it?", I said.. noo no.. bad.. very bitter. She sent the waitress over. I told her the coleslaw was bitter and she asked if I wanted another side instead (in spanish). I asked for fries. How bitter was this coleslaw? All I can say is please do not order it and ruin your meal. I can't really explain it. I'm not sure I've eaten many things in my life that I could compare for reference. A few minutes went by and the fries came out. The fries were really good, they had a light coating of batter on them, were seasoned well, freshly cooked.. and was actually a highlight of the meal.. this totally made up for the bad coleslaw. If I come back, fries and fried fish.. Fish (8.5/10) - Shrimp (6.5/10) - Oysters (5/10) Fries (9/10) - Rice (5/10) - Coleslaw (0/10) Prices were fair, about average for seafood, and portion sizes weren't huge, but I left decently full.. I would return again. Avoiding certain items of course. Definitely a good option for affordable seafood. On a side note, while I was eating I saw other people order several things that looked really good, one being a giant glass of shrimp and red liquid that was topped with sliced avocados. I'm assuming was a shrimp cocktail. This place might be worth visiting as a group to explore the menu a bit.

I love this restaurant. I have been coming to playa since I was a kid. La playa in my opinion is one of my personal favorites for seafood. Their service is great and fast. Their fresh lemonade also very good. My favorite dishes are the fried shrimp platter and the King soup. The fried shrimp is so good especially with the tartar sauce. But my all time favorite is the king soup because of all the different seafood in it such as crab legs, octopus, oysters, and cod.

Fridays I crave seafood, I was really close to this location and I decided to try this place again. The first time I came to try the Salvadorian food but this time I got 3 fried fish from the lunch menu. It was delicious, plenty of food, the waitress was really nice, the place is clean and the spanish music is the background is at right volume level. I also got a small Vaso de Caldo, that was the item that got my seafood craving satisfied.

I've driven past this place but never gave it a thought. So I went here today because a friend of mine had this fish plate and it smelled so amazing and looks so good. So I had to try it and yes I am very impressed it is very light and fluffy and not hard and crunchy. And for 7:29 not too bad. It seems very busy in here it took a minute to get my order was the only downside. I was very impressed food was excellent. Service was great except it was very busy